Boston Red Sox Trivia

Can you guess these facts about the Boston Red Sox?

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Hint	Answer
Name of Boston's stadium	Fenway Park
Nickname of that stadium's left field wall	The Green Monster
Catcher who "waved fair" his game-winning home run in the 1975 World Series	Carlton Fisk
David Ortiz's nickname?	Big Papi
In 1941, he became the last player to hit .400 for an entire season	Ted Williams
"Curse" that prevented the Red Sox from winning the World Series for 85 years	Curse of the Bambino
Year that curse come to an end	2004
First baseman whose fielding error has been blamed for costing the Red Sox the 1986 World Series	Bill Buckner
Pitcher who twice struck out 20 players in a single game	Roger Clemens
Player who won the Triple Crown in 1967	Carl Yastrzemski
Pitcher who led the majors in ERA in 1999, 2000, 2002, and 2003	Pedro Martínez
Knuckleballer who retired in 2011 after nearly two decades with the Red Sox	Tim Wakefield
Pitcher who recorded 192 of his 511 wins while playing for the Red Sox	Cy Young
Player who was named AL MVP in 2018, hitting .346 with 32 home runs	Mookie Betts
First name of former shortstop Garciaparra	Nomar
Boston's AAA affiliate	Worcester Red Sox
1980s third baseman who was rumored to drink as many as 70 beers in a single cross-country flight	Wade Boggs
Pitcher who took the team's name to heart when he pitched wearing a bloody sock in 2004	Curt Schilling

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34 Comments

Level 88

Oct 21, 2018

Yaz's triple crown was in 1967, of course.

Level ∞

Oct 21, 2018

Fixed

Level ∞

Oct 21, 2018

Fun fact. In 1968, Yaz was the only player in the AL to hit over .300.

Level 90

Apr 20, 2019

Fun fact 2. Yaz was the last player to win the Triple Crown (1967) until 2012.

He is still the only player since 1937 to achieve the Quadruple Crown, which includes most hits.

Level 87

Oct 22, 2018

As a die hard Yankee fan, I can't say I'm proud to have gotten them all right. As a die hard baseball fan, maybe I'm a little proud.

Level 82

Oct 22, 2018

Whose error? You mean whose wild pitch, right?

Level 69

Oct 22, 2018

Buckner let stanley off the hook

Level 70

Oct 22, 2018

Correct. This needs to be reworded. Had Buckner not made the error, the game would have still been tied. His error didn't cost them the World Series -- they had already blown the lead at that point. If anything, Stanley cost them the World Series.

Level 90

Apr 20, 2019

His error put a runner across home plate with a tie score in the bottom half of an extra inning.

Game thus over.

Level 55

Dec 30, 2019

I agree this question needs to be reworded or eliminated. We'll never know what might have happened if the wild pitch had not occurred. We'll never know what might have happened if the error had not occurred. What we do know is that the Red Sox as a team lost Game 6 and then Game 7 to lose the Series. Let poor Bill Buckner rest in peace.

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Dec 30, 2019

The question has been reworded, thanks. I was always under the impression that the Red Sox were ahead and would have won Game 6 if not for Buckner's error. I didn't know that the game was tied.

Level 85

Feb 24, 2020

The wording is now perfect, QM. Anybody who pins the loss on Buckner simply did not watch the game. Every Red Sox fan on this planet was already inconsolable before Mookie Wilson ever hit that ball. Up by 2 runs, nobody on, two outs...1 more out and the Sox were champions. Then the Mets rose from the dead thanks to Calvin Schiraldi and Bob Stanley. Once it was tied, Boston had already thrown a sure World Series title away. Buckner's error was just the final small piece of the collapse.

Level 86

Oct 22, 2018

70 beers is 6.6 gallons. I don't think so.

Level 63

Oct 22, 2018

it's true. or at least several of his former teammates have verified it. the man was famous for being a beer drinking machine.

Level 86

Oct 22, 2018

His former teammates are liars. No way he drank 50 pounds of beer on a cross-country flight.

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Oct 22, 2018

"Rumored to be able". In my opinion, the rumors are almost certainly not true.

Level 75

Oct 22, 2018

Why isn't he on the Supreme Court?

Level 69

Oct 23, 2018

Perhaps he's missing the other major qualification…

Level 83

Oct 22, 2018

Thanks to It's Always Sunny for the Boggs answer!

Level 75

Oct 22, 2018

Error - Nomah is not accepted.

Level 67

Oct 22, 2018

Something to update in the near future, the AAA team is moving form Pawtucket, RI to Worcester, MA

Level 69

Oct 23, 2018

No way! They've been in Pawtucket since forEVah. The Rhode Islanders will be sad.

Level 64

May 4, 2020

Polar Park in Worcester is indeed on the way to host the WooSox. Pawtucket and Providence couldn't move fast enough on an upgrade or replacement for McCoy Stadium. Thank goodness for Route 146.

Level 61

Dec 18, 2023

Everyone knows the only real baseball team in Worcester is the 4 time FCBL champions Worcester Bravehearts

Level 69

Oct 23, 2018

One of my proudest Twitter accomplishments is the fact that I've been personally blocked by Curt Schilling. I used to be so taken with him – until he stopped winning baseball games and started talking about topics other than Everquest.

Level 90

Oct 27, 2018

1918 = Babe Ruth traded, the last World Series win for the Red Sox forever. 1986 = one strike to go to win the Series, on simple ground ball to throw to first, Buckner f's it up. 1918+86=2004, the year the Sox steamrolled all their division final games and the Series to win. 86 years, not 85. If you want to say "calendar years", one could counter with actually a little longer than 86 years because the Series was later in the year 2004 than 1918.

Level 55

Dec 30, 2019

Oh my. More errors than Chuck Knoblauch. I'm sure you mean last World Series win in what seemed forever. But your memory of 1986 needs a lot of work. Calvin Schiraldi and Bob Stanley both needed just one more out to end Game 6 and therefore the Series. When the ball was hit to Buckner, the score was tied. If he doesn't commit an error, the game continues and who knows what happens. But a "simple ground ball" was not going to win the Series for the Red Sox. And if Red Sox pitching didn't fail again in Game 7, the Curse would have been broken 18 years earlier.

Level 85

Feb 24, 2020

Spot on, UCF. Get Kevin Mitchell out. Get Gary Carter out. Get Ray Knight out. Don't throw a wild pitch. And you're WS champs.

Level 66

Apr 14, 2021

You have the triple-A affiliate listed as the Pawtucket Red Sox which as of this year is not accurate. They are now located in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Level 62

Jun 4, 2021

The Red Sox AAA affiliate is now located in Worcester, MA.

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Oct 4, 2021

Updated.

Level 72

Apr 26, 2022

Accept "Nomah" as a correct answer to account for the accent.

Level 61

Aug 1, 2023

please accept The Big Sock